I still remember what Michele said afterwards, that he didn't even try to follow Contador's attack immediately because he was just too fast.Fernandez said:
Really miss his easy dancing style on the pedals. Todays pedaling isnt the same.LaFlorecita said:
You're not wrongFernandez said:
Same. First real GT highlight of the season... the classics are great, especially this year, but I fell in love with the sport watching Grand Tour's (mainly TdF, but also Vuelta as that was televised), so it just means something else to me. Even though its very time consuming to follow and sometimes really disappoint..King Boonen said:
Valv.Piti said:
I kinda also do, at least recently (well, mainly the cobbled classics + Strade Bianche, the Ardennes and MSR are generally not stuff that gets me out of my couch), but there's just something about the Grand Tours for me personally.King Boonen said:
I think most people agree that a one day race is much more likely to be entertaining than a gt stage. Even mountain stages hardly ever come close to good cobbles classics in terms of entertainment. Still that doesn't automatically mean stage races are worse, they are just something completely different. A GT isn't about one stage it's about the development of the gc, combined with battles for stage wins and other jerseys. GT's have narratives which classics simply can't have. Only looking on the entertainment of one day one could argue that Il Lombardia or the Olympic RR last year were as good or even better than the Rissoul or the Formigal stage last year. However while one day races stand for themselves these incredible stages have much more around them. The Rissoul stage wasn't great because Nibali beat Chaves on the final climb, but because the fallen champion Nibali proved all critics wrong, turned out to be the strongest of the stage used this strength to completely turn around the gc in only one stage. This combined with the drama around Kruijswijk, the pre race outsider who could have used the shape of his life to win a GT, but made one mistake which cost him the chance of his life. In a one day race Kruijswijk only would have been an outsider who was surprisingly able to follow the favorites but then crashed. But in a gt we had already seen Kruijswijk for 3 weeks and it became more and more clear that this could be his year. This made his crash even more dramatic. Now ofc people could say this made the race worse because it made Kruijswijks crash more sad, but at the end I think all people can agree that it made his race more memorable in a way that can't happen in a one day race.Valv.Piti said:
And there was a rest day yesterday...glassmoon said:TJ told yesterday that he's ready for Etna...
So today, his fail seems to be inevitable
glassmoon said:TJ told yesterday that he's ready for Etna...
So today, his fail seems to be inevitable
klintE said:
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